Senior Transportation- How Should I Transport My Loved One to a Nursing Home or Hospice Facility?
When it comes to senior transportation, you want to make sure that your parent or relative receives the best care possible when being transported from their hospital or home to a nursing home or hospice facility. This transition can be uncomfortable for a senior patient if they do not have the right type of transportation or medical equipment to get them to their new nursing home or hospice center.
Here are some options and frequently asked questions to help you decide what form of senior transportation is best for your loved one:
Air Ambulance & Medical Flight Services: Air Critical Care’s medical flight services are the perfect option for those needing timely senior transportation to any city, state or country worldwide. Our medical flight services offer either a private air ambulance jet, medical escort or international medical transport service with all medical equipment that is needed to safely transport your loved one to a nursing home or hospice facility.
Transporting an elderly relative to a nursing home or hospice facility can be difficult for both a patient and their family. We want to help make this transition as easy and stress-free as possible.
Long Distance Medical Transportation by Ground: ACC Medlink provides state-to-state medical transportation services that can transport your parent or relative in a large, spacious medical van that accommodate the patient, family and medical crew. Our ground transportation services are the perfect option for those patients that need state-to-state medical transportation to get them from their hospital or home to their new nursing home or hospice facility.
Does your relative or parent need a stretcher or can they sit up for several hours
Depending on if an elderly patient can sit up for several hours or if they need a stretcher, Air Critical Care & ACC Medlink’s medical director and transport coordinators will help you decide which form of transportation is best for your parent or relative. Both our air and ground senior transportation services can accommodate a comfortable stretcher bed that is suitable for all patients.
For those that can comfortably ride sitting up for several hours but also need medical assistance, our commercial medical escort will provide a nurse that can travel with the patient aboard a commercial airliner. For those needing stretcher services, an air ambulance, international commercial stretcher service or long distance ground transportation are appropriate forms of transportation.
Does your relative or parent need to be transported to a different city, state or country
If a patient is in need of state-to-state medical transportation, Air Critical Care and ACC Medlink can provide medical transports to ‘Every City & Every State Nationwide.’ Depending on the distance, either an international medical transport service or a state-to-state medical transportation service can be provided to the elderly patient. Often when an elderly relative or parent needs senior transportation, the patient will need to be moved from their current location to a nursing home or hospice facility that is closer to their family.
Our international medical transport services are offered to those patients needing to be moved to a nursing home or hospice facility in another country. In this case, our international commercial medical stretcher service will transport your loved one by an international commercial airliner that travels outside of the U.S. by removing seats out of the airliner and replacing them with a comfortable stretcher bed that is sectioned off from the rest of the airline seating.
State-to-state medical transportation can be arranged when a patient is needing to travel within the U.S. and requires long distance ground transportation, air ambulance or a commercial medical escort. No matter where you are traveling, Air Critical Care and ACC Medlink can transport your loved one by either ground or air in a timely manner.
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